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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation

Alation

It’s a truism that data is the most important asset in the 21 st century economy. But, today too many enterprises exist in a data fog, with poorly contextualized data scattered across millions of tables. Dispelling this data fog is one of the key challenges for the next generation enterprise.

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Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Putting the Data in Digital Transformation

erwin

Part Two of the Digital Transformation Journey … In our last blog on driving digital transformation , we explored how enterprise architecture (EA) and business process (BP) modeling are pivotal factors in a viable digital transformation strategy. Analyze metadata – Understand how data relates to the business and what attributes it has.